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An open letter condemning Jonathan Glazer's 'Zone of Interest' Oscars acceptance speech has been signed by more than 450 Jewish Hollywood professionals. The group denounced Glazer's controversial comments made when accepting the Academy Award for best international film. The letter reads in part, "We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination."

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00:00All the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization. How do we resist?

00:06An open letter condemning Jonathan Glaser's zone of interest Oscars acceptance speech has

00:11been signed by more than 450 Jewish Hollywood professionals. The group denounced Glaser's

00:16controversial comments made when accepting the Academy Award for Best International Film on

00:21March 10th. The letter reads in part, we refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of

00:26drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people

00:31and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination. In his acceptance speech of the

00:362024 Oscars, Glaser read from a prepared speech to thank his partners and then made a statement

00:42addressing the current Israel-Gaza conflict. Right now we stand here as men who refute their

00:47Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict

00:51for so many innocent people. He continued, whether the victims of October 7th in Israel

00:56or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist?

01:01The open letter this week continued, the use of words like occupation to describe an indigenous

01:06Jewish people defending a homeland that dates back thousands of years and has been recognized

01:11as a state by the United Nations distorts history. To read the full open letter, head to THR.com.

01:17And for the latest entertainment news and updates, keep watching The Hollywood Reporter News.

01:26We don't know how to do this scene. We don't know, it's not an implant of faith in a

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